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| Name | Formidable (1825) | Explanation | |
| Type | Second rate | ||
| Launched | 19 May 1825 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 2289 tons | ||
| Displacement | 3594 tons | ||
| Guns | 84 | ||
| Fate | 1906 | ||
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| Note | 1869 t.s. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Sheerness | ||
| 23 August 1841 - 23 November 1841 | Commanded by Captain Edward Thomas Troubridge, fitting for the Mediterranean | ||
| 14 December 1841 - 23 April 1844 | Commanded by Captain Charles Sullivan, Mediterranean | ||
| 21 April 1844 - 1845 | Commanded by Captain George Frederick Rich, flagship of Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, Mediterranean | ||
| 16 June 1854 - 10 September 1857 | Commanded by Captain John Jervis Tucker, guard ship of Ordinary, Sheerness | ||
| 15 September 1857 - 30 April 1858 | Commanded by Captain John Coghlan Fitzgerald, guard ship of Ordinary, Sheerness, and Captain-Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard | ||
| 1 July 1858 - 30 May 1859 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain John Coghlan Fitzgerald, guard ship of Ordinary, Sheerness, and Captain-Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard (until he died) | ||
| 3 July 1860 | Commanded by Captain William Garnham Luard, flagship of Vice-Admiral William James Hope Johnstone, Sheerness | ||
| 3 July 1863 - 11 April 1866 | Commanded by Captain John Fulford, flagship of Vice-Admiral George Robert Lambert, then Charles Talbot, Sheerness | ||
| 21 April 1866 - 31 December 1868 | Commanded by Captain Donald McLeod Mackenzie, flagship of Vice-Admiral Baldwin Wake Walker, Sheerness | ||
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